“Researchers using mouse models found that altering the CaMKII brain protein caused similar cognitive effects as those that happen through normal aging.”
CU Anschutz says less nitric oxide means less S-nitrosylation of CaMKII, a protein behind memory and learning. The evidence is mice. The pitch is drugs. It explicitly excludes Alzheimer’s and dementia, the decline people fear. A university press office turned a mouse result into a pipeline before anyone tested a pill.